Doesn’t matter when there’s a stonewall penalty you can’t just brush it off even VAR are advising it’s a penalty it should warrant a look at VAR that’s bad refereeing and a terrible call the rest I’m okay with if he doesn’t want to stop start the game that’s fair but per rules it’s a penalty
We could’ve created more chances in the final third I thought outside the goal in the 2 minutes we soaked defense fairly well and were good second half thought we were great getting through the middle it was just the final third we could have been better but the two penalty chances should have been penalties and I think could have changed the game entirely
Bumped into John McGinn at 8am, off for his matchday morning stroll around Boston.
His words of wisdom: “Long day ahead. Take it easy, lads.”
My words of wisdom: “Go and fucking pump them.”
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Whilst we’re on the subject of sabotage…
Before agreeing to return, Rodgers was assured that recruitment had improved since his first tenure.
Remember that first window? £19m spent on 10 players. Nothing had changed. We were still on the hunt for cheap punts.
He wanted centre-backs with pace for the Champions League. Mark Lawwell delivered Maik Nawrocki & Gustaf Lagerbielke - two players who had no pace.
We sold Jota & Abada, but failed to adequately replace them.
Joe Hart announced his retirement in February 2024, yet we had no replacement lined up five months later when Rodgers had to personally contact Kasper Schmeichel and do the recruitment team’s job for them.
On to the second season, where we actually showed some ambitious intent in the summer window. The fact we were without a Head of Football at that time due to the departure of Mark Lawwell may have been coincidental.
We sold Matt O’Riley and then Kyogo in January, but failed to adequately replace them.
Then came the third season, where we were dreadfully ill-prepared for the Champions League, failing to negotiate the qualifiers for the 7th time in 9 attempts.
We sold Kuhn, but failed to adequately replace him (do you see the trend developing here?).
We kept Maeda when his head was already in Wolfsburg.
We sold Idah, messed up the Dolberg deal, then had to go back to the Rodgers Rolodex to bring in Iheanacho.
When Rodgers eventually spoke out about this amateur approach to recruitment, someone at the club briefed against him to the worst tabloid rag imaginable.
You may well have a predetermined view on Brendan Rodgers, but he wasn’t the one sabotaging Celtic. If you believe that, you’ll agree with every word of Desmond’s statement obliterating the man on his departure - a statement that remains a stain on Celtic’s reputation.
The target of our disdain should be fully focused on those in the boardroom who are incapable of progressing our football club, not on managers trying to achieve success to a backdrop of chaos and dysfunction.
@EvanMcFarlane When he bring home the trophy replica (trump kept the original) after our group are mysteriously absent he’ll be the most in demands manager and we can release him for at least 2 sky tv deals